Brklyngrk
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The thing is we are moving in the right direction. We haven't played our best but got the results. This was a trademark of the ethniki for the past 16 years which went missing during the last campaign. I am sure when the quality of the competition increases, so will our play. Generally, against teams which we are deemed to be better than, we tend to struggle more as we are expected to be the primary attacking team which is not in our dna. Against the Netherlands, we pressed more and played a lot more crisper. One can argue that it wasn't their best team, but they still were ahead of the three teams we played. Winning builds confidence. Our goal was to win 3 out of 3 and we accomplished that.
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At the end of the day, we pretty much dominated possession during the last campaign and ended up losing almost every game. Much rather win than lose with the ball.
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Wasn't he on the bench this weekend?? Didn't play but available...
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Love or hate him, Maniatis hustles the entire 90 minutes and the coach has become fond of him...they both just recently stopped playing for their teams. If he picks them again in November and they still haven't found a team....They probably won't play anyway...
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Whether you like maniatis or not, he does hustle all the time and the team needs his work ethic. When we were losing last year, we sorely needed a guy like that...
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Adam Gotsis - Denver (drafter this year)
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While we would all love to have won 8-0, that is not our DNA. We won, got 3 pts, on to the next game. We will not outscore Belgium or Bosnia. Not who Greece is.
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Greece is/will get the Win which is what we was the goal. Goal scoring is something we have never been known for. Faroe Islands is now tied with Hungary on the 83rd minute (to put it in perspective). Two wins out of two games is all we could have asked for.
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While the Greek league has struggled the last few years, it is not miles behind the Portuguese or Turkish league. Benfica at the moment may be better, but it wasn't that long ago when OLY beat them quite handily on thanksgiving. They have gotten some results the last few years leading to a high coefficient. The top 3 teams in Portugal do have a better record in Europe but things change very quickly. In terms of the Turkish league, when was the last time a Turkish team went past the quarterfinals in the CL?
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This is just a reflection of the overall Greek business environment. How can any investor take the league seriously when there is non stop interference from the government. Threatening the suspension of the season 2 days before it to start is ridiculous!!!
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Greece got a gold in the rings...
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While the perception is that Santos did not "develop" talent, we have to remember that is not his job. That is the job of the club teams and EPO. My biggest grip with him was that he played Katsouranis and Karagounis regardless of form. Their leadership though is what he valued and it showed. Whether you like him or not, he did go 17 games without a loss (regardless of whom we played) and will go down as the 1st or 2nd best manager in Greece's history.
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Want Portugal to win, they are due. They may not have the best team (not bad by all accounts) but they grind it out. Santos was great for us and Greek football (plus I have a few Portuguese friends).
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The irony in all of this is that the case for the UK to leave is to "get back their country". Well, I guess Scotland, N. Ireland, Gibraltar may all say the same thing pretty soon....
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The impact isn't to the current group of players who have already succeeded but to the future group that may not be developed.
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SYRIZA is a product of unsustainable spending and broken promises made by PASOK and ND over the last 50 years. When things were good, no one cared. When things got bad, everyone suddenly noticed. Pasok got the first crack to fix the problem and couldn't, ND got a shot and was working towards it but ran out of time. The Greek people were tired of seeing the politically connected get jobs, become rich, all on the backs of the everyday Greek. The media kept showing the corruption and no one was getting prosecuted. SYRIZA promised to overhaul the system and completely change the country. The problem lies here. The system does and can work if you have the proper management team. SYRIZA does not and it showed fairly quickly. They quickly escalated an already bad problem and made significantly worse. We need competent, smart people to take on these complex issues that Greece is going through. Tsipras and co are not those people. A good leader unites his people, they don't blame everyone for their issues. I do have major hopes for Kyriakos. His CV is impeccable. He comes across as very knowledgeable and articulate. I am not saying he will solve all our problems, but he does seem to have a fundamental understanding of what the issues are and that is the first step in problem solving.
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Austerity in itself does not work but austerity coupled with investment and incentives to spur investments does. The problem you have in Greece is that you have a bloated public sector, social programs (like pension) which cannot be supported by the current population and bureaucratic barriers that hinder investment.
Greece has a very educated young population which can be employed at a discount to European peers, year round great weather, very advantageous position in the world (China has taken notice hence its investments in our infrastructure). Every major company should be knocking on Greece's door wanting to invest. However, everyone is scared to.
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The issue is that while we accepted bail outs, the accompanying reforms were never implemented or if implemented, at a very slow pace. When the reforms that were implemented finally got some traction, we had elections and Syriza came into power. They were able to do everything the Greek people had done the previous 5 years in just months. This current administration set back the country 10 years!! ( I am being generous). Many of the required programs requested by the creditors have been necessary and long overdue. They have the intellectual capital, just not at the political level.
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There is blame to go around....In Greece, while the people may not have taken out the loans, they were complicit in allowing the govn't to function. Any administration that would have said to cut spending would have been thrown out in minutes. The EU gave Greece loans as a way to integrate it more in the Eurozone but they also were complicit and turned a blind eye to any warning signs. In the US, we may have $19 trillion in debt but we are still looked at as center of the financial world, if that doesn't define success, not sure what does. Having said that, most Americans do believe that reforms must be made to lower the national debt. The debt is not sustainable and most people know that.
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if he keeps getting clean sheets, why not??? you play the best 11!!!
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No grexit - deal was reached.
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Apparently Kontonis wants concessions from EPO in order to relent with UEFA. So it's a game of chicken, let's see who wins. We all know who loses.
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Not sure how banning an entire league/national federation from international competitions is a good thing? You are setting back Greece at least another 4 years. Crazy how things just seem to get worst...
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The team looked better than it had at any point under the last two coaches. The coach is trying to see what he has, whether it be Moras or even Tziolis. He is seeing this team for the first time and as we all know, injuries can and do happen. The thing I like is that he is trying to use the best 11 players and not necessarily limiting them to defined positions. Many of us have stated that Holebas may be better off playing up as a winger in games were we need pace. By putting Stafylidis in there in mid, not his natural position, he showed that he would be willing to do that. I rather he experiment and learn about the players now then doing this in September.
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Sokratis Papastathopoulos ‒ Betis Sevilla
in Greek Players Abroad
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He is starting and is the team captain for the game.